Watchmen

[rffrydr]

[nodoodahs]

I re-read the complete work, for the first time since, well, it's been decades since I first read it. I found the book as powerful and affective as I did then, if not more so, simply because as I'm older, I'm more aware of the nature of the world than I was then. It many ways, the choosing of the surface subject matter (which is different from the deeper, actual subject matter) was a product of the time in which it was written, but that, I think, can be overlooked or enjoyed the same way one can do so when reading Romeo and Juliet, or watching West Side Story, or perusing a more modern treatment of what is, essentially, the same story.

I hope the movie does it justice.
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